316 Quotes About Dystopia

  • Author J.G. Ballard
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    Already it was clear that the lower floors were doomed. Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

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  • Author J.G. Ballard
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    Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives.

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  • Author O'Brien
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    Who controls the present controls the past. Is it your opinion, Winston, that the past has real existence?" 

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  • Author J.M. Northup
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    As I ran a few blades of grass between my fingers, enjoying the breeze as it caressed my face, I contemplated the cycle of life. As this year would host the long anticipated arrival of the Mayan Doomsday, marking the end of their long count calendar, I wasn’t alone in my ponderings. The whole world was focused on the potential that we would be the last generation; the witnesses of the world’s end.

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